This season was rather uneven, though tons of stuff happened from Gloria (Sofia Vergara) announcing her pregnancy to having Phil (the great Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) as godparents to attending the funeral of Phil's mother.
Here, they attend Phil's mother's funeral and have to deal with her odd request, of setting Phil's father (Fred Willard) up with another woman. That doesn't go well, as a man shows up at her door. It turns out to only be her brother, so the door remains open for them to get together.
Cam (Eric Stonestreet) deals with some crazy women who cheat at board games, steal cookies and put alcohol in their drinks. Gloria is a wanted woman solely because after she moved out of her apartment, her roommate turned it into a place of prostitution so Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) defends her and decides that he wants to get back into the courtroom, considering the funeral couldn't have come at a better time as he was so sick of work. Though the judge is tough, Mitch annoys her so much, she lets everyone off with a mere warning just so she can't hear any more of his banter.
Jay (Ed O'Neill) meets up with an older woman who was his first, but she doesn't remember him considering she had sex with so many other young boys.
Alex (Ariel Winter) deals with receiving a lighter and wonders why, until she reads the full note. The lighter belonged to yes, Paul Newman. That was the best moment of the episode.
The other kids, including Haley (Sarah Hyland, nominated for some reason for a Critics' Choice Award), Luke (Nolan Gould) and Manny (Rico Rodriguez). Notably absent were Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) and the baby Joe. That always bothers me, but whatever.
I thought the season started off great, with Gloria's pregnancy, sending Haley off to college and other crazy plot lines, including letting Cam go back to work. Then Haley got kicked out of college for underage drinking among other things, and we learned that Gloria had secretly stolen her younger sister's life, which was quite a shocker.
What I don't understand is why this is the show that gets all the praise when the acting is only decent though the dialogue is great, I find it unrealistic. I will still probably continue watching the show though I quite frankly don't really care about the characters, finding basically all of them annoying. Still it will be nice to see Mitch back in the courtroom and Claire finally out of the house. They need to give Haley something to do other than just a few odd jobs and whatnot. Season: B, Finale: B
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